Posted on June 20, 2008 by yojoe
Posted on June 19, 2008 by yojoe
Marine Corps Joint Strike Fighter makes first flight.
Filed under: Blog, Business, F-35 Lightning, Joint Strike Fighter, Marine Corps, Military, Military Hardware, Military Technology, Technology, USMC | Tagged: F-35, JSF | 7 Comments »
Posted on June 17, 2008 by yojoe
In a hearing on 17JUN08, a military judge, Col Stephen Folsom, USMC, dismissed all charges against LtCol Jeffrey Chessani. Col Folsom ruled that the decision to charge LtCol Chessani was a product of unlawful command influence (UCI). Col Folsom ruled,
the participation of Col. John Ewers as an investigator and report writer in the [...]
Filed under: Army, Crime, GWOT, Haditha, Iraq, Law, LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, Marine Corps, Military, Military Law, UCMJ | Leave a Comment »
Posted on June 16, 2008 by yojoe
SecDef Gates orders more UAV to Iraq.
Filed under: Air Force, Blog, Business, Drone Aircraft, Drones, GWOT, Military, Military Hardware, Military Technology, Science, Technology, UAS, UAV, UCAV, Unmanned Aircraft, War, War on Terrorism | Tagged: gates uav | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 16, 2008 by yojoe
Defense lawyers for LtCol Jeffrey Chessani believe all charges may be dropped. They base this on a signal from the military judge, Col Folsom, who previously scheduled a hearing for two days and has now changed the session to last one hour. At this session the military judge will rule on the motion [...]
Filed under: GWOT, Haditha, Iraq, Law, LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, Marine Corps, Military, Military Law, UCMJ, USMC | 3 Comments »
Posted on June 15, 2008 by yojoe
On this Fathers’ Day it is appropriate to remember one of the greatest fathers ever (outside the author’s own). Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy’s and an adopted child. He founded the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. A wonderful charity, please visit the site.
yojoe (in Fathers’ Day mode) out
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Posted on June 7, 2008 by yojoe
Listed under “things you hope never happen to you” is the story of Mario Visnjic, who:
had gone swimming naked in the sea at the Valalta beach in western Croatia, reports 24sata. His testicles had shrunk while in the cool sea and slipped through the wooden slats when he sat back down on his wooden [...]
Filed under: Health, Humor | Tagged: http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp. | 9 Comments »
Posted on June 7, 2008 by yojoe
Secretary of Defense Gates was doing his best impression of The Donald, when he dismissed the top two officials in the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne and General Michael Moseley. The move was prompted by Air Force’s mishandling of nuclear weapons and its reluctance to support the war in Iraq.
John [...]
Filed under: Air Force, Iraq, Military | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 5, 2008 by yojoe
Lt Andrew Grayson was acquitted on 4JUN08.
According to reports:
Cheers erupted as the seven-officer panel cleared 1st Lt. Andrew Grayson, who was the first of three Marines to be tried in the biggest U.S. criminal case involving Iraqi deaths linked to the war. The verdict came just five hours after deliberations began.
Two Marines still face courts-martial [...]
Filed under: GWOT, Haditha, Iraq, Law, Lt Andrew Grayson, LtCol Jeffrey Chessani, Marine Corps, Military, Military Law, SSgt Frank Wuterich, UCMJ, USMC, War, War on Terrorism | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 5, 2008 by yojoe
The original blog post is just information about Tom Cruise finishing the filming of the movie Valkyrie. In Valkyrie, Cruise plays Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an officer in the 6th Panzer Division of the Wehrmacht Herr, who attempts to assassinate Hitler.
This is not what makes this post great; it is the comments. Comment [...]
Filed under: Blog, Entertainment, Film, Humor, Military, Movies, Top Posts | Tagged: himmler, hitler, tom-cruise, valkyrie, xenu | 1 Comment »
James Hansen Testifies Before Congress: Globe Not As Warm 20 Years Later
In 1988, Dr. James E. Hansen, a NASA scientist, testified before the Senate about the impending doom of global warming. Dr. Hansen made much of that day’s temperature, which was 98 degrees, to add some theatrics to his message.
Dr. Hansen testified again on 23 June 2008, this time before Congress, stressing that,
the world has long [...]
Filed under: Anthropogenic Climate Change, Anthropomorphic Climate Change, Business, Economics, Environment, Global Warming, Law, Man-Made Global Warming, Political Commentary, Politics, Science | 18 Comments »